--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "Gerry <waluk@...>" <waluk@...>
wrote:

> Thanks for your story, Torsten. Americans actually don't speak
> English the same way the British people speak it. The Brits speak
> British English unless of course they live in Ireland whereby they
> speak Irish, a derivitive of Celtic. Americans speak American
> English unless they live in New England and speak Bostonian.
>
> Gerry
>

Or unless they're from the South, in which case they speak the
Southern dialect. I didn't know the part about Celtic-speaking Brits
in Ireland.

Yes, I noticed that when I hitchhiked through the USA.

Torsten